Avoiding tracking and anonymizing your Google searches are two different things : a record of some of the websites you have visited can be tracked without reaching them via a search engine (like google).

When you do a google search with the same search terms, with and without the Googlesharing proxy activated,
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This offers some protection from phishing, but can result in Google being informed of the websites you visit, even though you are not using google search engine to get there, (and the website you are going to doesn't have any google trackers).

Nooby - I think that some of the symptoms you are discussing are related to "Google Suggest" or "Google Prompt" which is a feature that remembers other peoples most common/recent searches and displays those suggestions below your search box when you are typing in a word that you want to search.

It is a very annoying feature. I turn it off by making the following address my home page:

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0

(the last character is a "zero" not an "Oh"). This tells Google that you want a fresh search with no prompting.

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